'Avatar 2' Filming Starts This Fall, Release Slated for 2019
The long-awaited sequel to 2009's "Avatar" is finally shaping up, with filming for the movie slated to start by fall this year.
This was confirmed by actress Sigourney Weaver through an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "We're starting training, and we're starting--hmm, I probably can't say anything. We will be actually shooting it by the fall," she said.
Weaver adds that the script of the upcoming sequel is "so amazing," and that the fans' long wait for the movie is certainly worth it.
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Director James Cameron earlier revealed that all four sequels of "Avatar" already have finished scripts, but the second film - which is now revealed to start shooting this fall - will not be released until 2019.
It was previously speculated that the release date could be around December 2018, but Cameron clarified that the movie would not be ready by then and says the most realistic release date for the sequel could be later than that.
"It's not an unreasonable time frame if you think about it. It took us four-and-a-half years to make one movie and now we're making four," Cameron said in a previous interview with The Toronto Star.
The director said that the crew will not just be making the second one, as they will also simultaneously work on the third, fourth and fifth sequels at the same time.
Cameron also revealed that the upcoming "Avatar" sequels will have thematic connections with the first one, as they show how humans try to dominate nature instead of learning how to be a part of it.
It will also be centered around family now since it will show Jake (Sam Worthington), eight years after the events of the first "Avatar" film, who now has a family of his own.
Aside from Weaver and Worthington, Zoe Saldana is also confirmed to reprise her role.
